Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bruno, On Oct 10, 2010, at 2:12 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> I've never liked the gnulib 'non-release' policy, and think that maybe git >> branching at some reasonably stable point from time to time and apply fixes >> to make occasional libposix releases would satisfy my

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Bruce Korb
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> I've never liked the gnulib 'non-release' policy, and think that maybe git >> branching at some reasonably stable point from time to time and apply fixes >> to make occasional libposix releases would satisfy my naggin

Re: [PATCH] time: enforce recent POSIX ruling that time_t is integral

2010-10-09 Thread Paul Eggert
>> Hmm, given Bruno's recent point that C89 didn't require ?: support >> in constant expressions I'm skeptical of that. I can't find my copy of the official C89 standard, but the draft says that constant expressions can contain ?:. In fact, the grammar in s

Re: [PATCH] time: enforce recent POSIX ruling that time_t is integral

2010-10-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Eric, Thanks for this addition. > +struct __time_t_must_be_integral { > + unsigned int __floating_time_t_unsupported : 2 * ((time_t) 1 / 2 == 0) - 1; > +}; I agree with the expression (personally I would have used (time_t) 0.5 == 0 but that's probably equivalent). But why use __ as prefix?

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > I've never liked the gnulib 'non-release' policy, and think that maybe git > branching at some reasonably stable point from time to time and apply fixes > to make occasional libposix releases would satisfy my nagging fears This already happens for a year now. We _are_ maki

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 02:45:57PM CEST: > On 9 Oct 2010, at 15:13, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:48:04AM CEST: > >> ...ah, that's because autoreconf is still running aclocal before > >> libtoolize, > > autoreconf r

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Gary, On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> 400 lines of intense shell script later, ... > > With only a very cursory look at the implementation - how come you don't > just invoke gl_EARLY and gl_INIT and let the gnulib machinery take care of > including all the macros? Be

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 9 Oct 2010, at 15:13, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Gary, Hallo Ralf, > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:48:04AM CEST: >> I had to autoreconf to get rid of a ton of spurious configure time errors >> on my Mac... oddly, the first autoreconf threw up a ton of unset AC_LANG >>

Re: [diffutils-3.0] 9 of 78 tests failed on Haiku

2010-10-09 Thread scott mc
I have verified the sleep( ) issue and have checked with some of the Haiku devs on these issues. All of these are issues with Haiku. I have opened a handful of tickets in Haiku's trac to cover them: http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6704 http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6705 http://dev.haiku-os.org/t

Re: installable gnulib library

2010-10-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:48:04AM CEST: > I had to autoreconf to get rid of a ton of spurious configure time errors > on my Mac... oddly, the first autoreconf threw up a ton of unset AC_LANG > warnings, but when I reran autorecong to log them for later investig